I havent notice timeouts on google myself. I will have a look whether its giving an issues during peak hours.

Since we are using filtron, which rate limits queries preventing bots and crawlers abusing and thus getting us blocked i havent experienced getting captcha'ed by google. It could be dns timiming out or responding too slow during peak hours. I'll investigate whats wrong (the moment i notice anomaly)..

All big searx instances are blocked right now by google seems like it. I'm monitoring the situation and as soon as a patch or any solution comes up we'll apply it. As for startpage searches, i need to have a look why is that happening.